Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-12-21
DIGNIFIED SENATOR'S
UNBEND long ENOUGH TO ENGAGE IN A
LIVELY SPAT.
Call and Edmunds Talk 4 Few ROuHds-The
Mormon Q1eston-The Man From Florida Gets
his Memorial Printed-A Big Batch
Of Bills introduced

WASHINGTON, December 20-Iu the
Senate to-day messages from the President
were presented, with communications from
the Secretary of State, in reference 10 au
invitation to this Government to appoint
a delegate or delegates to the International
Exposition of Labor. to he held in Barcelo-
ua, Spain, in April, 1888, and commend
ing the Secretary's suggestions to the IA
yOrable consideration of Congress, and in
reference to an invitation from Her Brit
tanic Majesty to this Government to par
ticipate IN the International Exposition to
he held in Melbourne in 1886, TO celebrate
the centennial of the foundation Of New
south Wales, the first Australian colony.
The messages were referred To the Com
mittee on Foreign relations.
Senator Call renewed his motion to print
in the Record the memorial of the COnsti-
tutiOnal Convention. As Senator Ed
munds objected, Senator Call proceeded to
read the memorial, thus insuring its inser-
tion in the Record.
Mr. Call said that the Vermont Senator
that it waS unjust to refuse to hear the pc
titiOu of 2OO, 600 people.
Mr.. Edmunds thanked the Senator from
Florida Tor his gratifying illusions to him.
They were worthy OF him Cali and he
trusted that he Edmuuds) could bear
them. lie certainly had not questioned
the sincerity ol the Senator from Florida
for he lCaln had stood behind this
poiygamiSt hierarchy every time
time that it had any interest
to advance, or any wholesale legislation to
resist lie had done so with great deal
OF ability and considerable zeal. He could
give the Senator the praise OF being abso-
lutely sincere in standing by this body of
persons through thick AMI thin, cOmc
good, come i'll, and he expected that
the Senator would continue to DO so
aud If in process Of time Utah should be-
come State, and the United States Con-
stituliDn should be changed so that one
person might he q Senator from two States,
he hal no doubt that the Senator from
Florida would be the first Senator whom
the Mormon hierarchy would select.
Mr. Call said that the Senator from Yer
mont was not more sincere than correct in
his statement that he lCall) had stood be-
hind the Mormon hierarchy. lie had stood
behind human rights when the Senator,
with exquisite cruelty, sought to punish
innocent women and children
in Utah by legislation which
he (CalD regarded AZ uncOn-
stitutioral unfeeling, and inhuman. The
Senator had never heard him advocate
corrupt judicial tribunals or packed iuries,
or the prostitution Of courts OF justice.
lie Calll hai never expressed an opinion
as 10 how he should vote on the admission
of Utah. That was question for future
consideration. He understood by the
statements of reliable citizens, RepUbli-
cans AMI Democrats, that not more
thlu five per cent OF the population of
Utah favored polygmy, and that the
young people of the Territory were unani-
mously opposed to it, and submitted cOu-
scientiOusly to the legislation OF Congress.
The objections of the Senator from Yer
mont were vain and idle und were unwOr-
thy of that Senator. They were not re,'-
sonable as a matter OF logic and were not
| true as q matter OF fact.